Social welfare systems usually imply specific obligations for benefit recipients. If a recipient does not comply with these obligations, a sanction involving a punitive benefits reduction may be imposed. In this paper we give an overview of the literature on the effects of sanctions in social...

With the introduction of a new welfare benefit system in 2005, Germany implemented quite strict benefit sanctions for welfare recipients aged younger than 25 years. For all types of non-compliance except for missing appointments, their basic cash benefit is withdrawn for three months. A second...

We investigate the effectiveness of three different job-search and training programmes for German long-term unemployed persons. On the basis of an extensive administrative data set, we evaluated the effects of those programmes on various levels of aggregation using Causal Machine Learning. We...

Bei der öffentlichen Anhörung des Ausschusses für Arbeit und Soziales am 16.5.2022 äußerte sich das IAB mit dieser Stellungnahme (nach IAB-Stellungnahme 3/2022 zum Referentenentwurf) zum Entwurf der Bundesregierung für ein Elftes Gesetz zur Änderung des Zweiten Buches Sozialgesetzbuch -...